Elphin Soccer Club was an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

club based in Elphin, a suburb of

Launceston, Tasmania Launceston () or () is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (kanamaluka). As of 2021, Launceston has a population of 87,645. Material was copied ...

. Elphin, along with Launceston United SC and Tamar FC, inaugurated the two-round league competition in what was then called the Northern Soccer Association in 1912. They played in the

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in the years before the

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. Despite winning 6 northern titles within a period of 14 years, Elphin disappeared by the early 1930s.

Honours

* State Championship Runners-up: 5 times (1920,1923,1924,1927,1928) * Northern Premierships: 6 times (1914,1920,1923,1924,1927,1928)

References

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